No Country For Old Men Draft

Pearl Luna

English 1301

Dr. Childs

12/1/2012

                                                              
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            No Country for Old Men is a mind blowing film that gives corner turning thrills and will leave you thoughtful about the each character throughout. This movie presents the troubles in the life of the characters when they are strayed off their course of means. The characters run from their problems in the movie, they run from their deaths. If this is really true, then the characters that died would have been smart enough not to make careless mistakes. In the movie, it seems that their careless mistakes are from their efforts to avoid death, but, some will come to find that their mistakes come from their greed and their choices of foolishness.

            Llewellyn Moss, the veteran of the Vietnam War, mumbles “hold still” as he trains his eye piece on the prize that he is hunting. He shoots, but does he miss? He then proceeds to follow the trail of blood that leads him to the most foolish decision in his time that has set his fate in; he walks in to a drug trade gone to hell. Upon finding the wreck of ghostly cars and drugs, Llewellyn discovers a shot down Mexican guy in his truck, still alive but hardly. He questions the guy, but the man just sits there and asks for water. Llewellyn doesn’t give up that easy. No, not a man of war, never! He questions himself about the loot, and if there is any. Where would the last man standing hide himself, where would you go if you were carrying blood money of over a million dollars? The foreshadowing about his greed is obvious throughout the movie as it shows Llewellyn finding the last man standing, Llewellyn is later found in a hotel dead in his tracks hiding from the person that was trying to take over the greed.

            Anton Chigurh is a merciless undertaker that will have you running home from a Vietnam War if he was on the opposing side. Being against the hunter always calls for a great run when you are being hunted.  Like Llewellyn, he is being hunted by Chigurh and his good old crazy motivational self, motivated both by the money and blood. In the scene where he strangles the police officer, it is shown on the screen that he smirks just a bit. His satisfaction of someone in pain and bleeding comes back to him and haunts him as he is the one bleeding with a shot gun wound to the leg. Anton is a man that feels no pain or has no feelings, so why does he need a shot to numb his leg from the pain. Would he have cried out in pain himself if he were to dig in and take the bullets out without having to numb his pain like he numbed all the other characters of their pain. Anton grimaces at the shotgun wound as he tries to take his boots off and tries to evade the blood and the pain from the damage of his upper thigh. Chigurh is motivated by the blood the most, his one awful decision to be motivated by, gets him shot in the leg all just to snatch away the money, or the greed, from Llewellyn's hands.